General Chat

I was a the church youth club, someone heard it on the radio, after it was announced we all said a prayer

Was in the local Gaumont cinema with new hubby watching James Bond Doctor No film when the screen went blank and an announcement was made by the Manager who said that President Kennedy had been assassinated. The whole place went so quiet that you could hear a pin drop as we were all in shock.

In hospital in Kuwait recovering from the previous day's caesarian!

I was at work, on an afternoon shift when the news came through...........at mcdougalls flour mill in millwall docks.............(where canary wharf is now........)

a few days before my son was born..........(27th)


we were visiting my sis in law, in Wales,the weekend that Diana died.........was our anniversary weekend..............the daughter of a very dear friend of ours also died on " our weekend" in '86.......aged 16.....

I should have been at a St John's Ambulence meeting, as it was a Friday night.

For some reason I was very nervous and stayed in glued to the T.V instead.

Was watching either Double Your Money or Take Your Pick, it was interupped by the news flash.

I wasn't surprised by a news flash as had been feeling uneasy for the previous hour or so. But I was shocked by the news that President Kennedy had been shot.
Not sure what I had been expecting (except that it would be bad news) but it certainly not the assasination of the US President.

I haven't had any notable "bad feelings" about a major sad event before or since.

We didn't know till later in the evining that the President had died, just that he had been rushed to hospital. Nor were we told straight away that he had been shot in the head.

Still one of the most shocking News Flashes I have seen.

9/11 was at home as unwell, did not get any "bad feelings" at all. Was watching t.v. at first there was a "breaking news" report that a light aircraft had hit one of the twin towers. Not long afterward the whole story unfolded.

I wasnt even born :-D

I was working nights when the twin towers happened my husband woke me said look at this and switched on the TV, we were going to Florida in 6 weeks when it happened.

I was at work on the sunday morning when my OH rang me to tell Princess Di had been killed.

i was asleep in my pram age 4 months :-D